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I ordered an ice cream maker last week off amazon and it arrived yesterday! 🙂 It’s only a half-pint maker which is pretty much perfect considering I have the smallest freezer in the world. I didn’t realize when I bought it but it makes soft serve ice cream, which I think is actually better. So I made some keto-friendly ice cream today and it was actually pretty good! A little high in carbs because of all the heavy cream, but at 6.5g per serving I can have a little bit from time to time. I tried vanilla first;

1.5 cups heavy cream

1/4 cup Splenda

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

The recipe booklet suggested 1 cup of heavy cream and 1/2cup of half&half, I may try that next time as it might turn out a little bit lower in carb, and it might have a bit of a nicer, “lighter” texture. There is also a chocolate ice cream recipe which I’ll have to give a try as well, I opted for vanilla this time because I often find chocolate keto treats to be ultimately disappointing.

Week From Hell…

This past week has been pretty rough… I was sick with a cold all week, on top of that it was shark week, which meant I of course gained about 2 or 3lbs over the week and craved nothing but chocolate… which was only made worse by having an advent calendar chocolate every day… it was like poking the monster with a stick 😦 I felt like I was back at week 1 of keto where I was all OCD and couldn’t think of anything except chocolate and other carby treats. I even bought a bag of Werther’s Chocolate Caramels and got back into the bad habit of “topping up” my daily carb intake with however many chocolates I could eat and still stay under 20g. It’s a very dangerous, very slippery slope. Fortunately though, I made it through, didn’t cheat, lost the shark week water weight, and today I got back to my rowing. I didn’t do very well at all in terms of time, but for my first time back in a week it’s not so bad… I’ll eventually get back into the swing of things and find my stride.

Christmas Season

So, it’s the holidays… and we all know what that means… evil sugar plums. I have resolved to stay on keto for the entirety of the holiday season. It will be difficult, but I’ve requested that my family refrain from putting anything edible in my stocking. In the coming weeks I’ll be experimenting with various keto-friendly desserts so I might be able to bring a batch of something sweet to nibble on while the rest of the family eats the typical Christmas sugary stuff.

I am a little worried about this coming weekend, my best friend works for one of the largest cable and internet providers in Canada and for the third year in a row, has invited me to come along to the annual Christmas party (lucky me!! :D). The worrisome part is that they spend a lot of money on this thing… including a lot of money on a very impressive dessert buffet… It’s going to take a lot of willpower to restrain myself from digging in as I did previous years, but I think the best strategy will be to avoid even looking at the table. These are a couple pictures from previous years’ dessert selections…

These are only just the desserts I ate at the Christmas party 2011…

This is the dessert buffet at the Christmas Party 2012… it’s like a chocolate castle in the middle.

On the positive, I tried on the dress I bought 2 years ago for the Christmas party, and despite the fact that I could barely zip it up back in October 2012 for a cruise I was on (it took spanx and a very long and gruesome battle with the zipper), it now fits perfectly, and comfortably, and zips up with ease.